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Problem

• bun build --react-compiler turns (api?.who)() into const t1 = api?.who; ... t1(). The method runs with no this, or a second receiver gets the first result. No message.
• With a statement in an argument, --target=bun is wrong too since 1.4.3 (1.4.2 is right).
• Cause: lower_expression (src/react_compiler/lowering/build_hir/expr.rs:73) lowers such a callee as a value, with no receiver.

Fix

• Lowering emits a MethodCall on the object of the chain, in one value block with the chain and the arguments: if ($[0] !== api) t1 = (api?.who)().
• No pass, HIR type or codegen line changes. bun lint keeps the old lowering (an EnvironmentConfig flag). Cache version 52.
• Verified: test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts (3 new tests fail on main), plus the lint, fixture and AOT suites. Self-reviewed: 24 concerns raised, 22 addressed (Notes).

Background

• A MethodCall instruction has a receiver. A CallExpression has none.
• A memo block is the if ($[0] !== dep) { ... } around a computation. What it reads from outside gets a name. That is how api?.who left the call.
• A memo block that starts in a value block (one expression) covers all of it.
• Considered: not compiling such a function (more functions lose every memo block), and changing the ported pass align_method_call_scopes (work for every function).

Downsides

• Five shapes of (a?.b)(args) are now left as written (Notes). Four are so for api?.who(args) too.
• The arguments share the call's memo block: c(7) to c(5) for three fresh arguments.
• Every build: .text +3,072 B. Other calls lower with the same compares and frame.

Notes

Where this came from, and how often it occurs

• babel-plugin-react-compiler 1.0.0 emits the same const t1 = api?.who; ... t1() in client mode. With a statement in an argument (an IIFE, a useMemo callback with a guard clause) it keeps the call whole, and so does Bun 1.4.2 for --target=bun. Main loses this there for every target. 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 have react-compiler: keep operands in source order around a statement inside their expression #42859, whose promotion of temporaries around a statement (not in upstream) gives the callee a name. I did not bisect it.
• A differential fuzzer found it. No user reported it, here or upstream. It ranks below the compiler bugs that users reported (reactCompiler with target "bun" or "node" silently deletes useState calls and event handler props #40442, React Compiler with syntax minification silently drops folded parts of template literals #47464).
• A scan during self-review found the form once in 350 React packages from npm (14,730 component and hook functions): (webviewRef.current?.[propName] as any)(...args) in expo. That file builds the same on main and on this branch.
• Workaround on released versions: write a?.b(x), or (a?.b).call(a, x) to keep the TypeError for a nullish a. bun lint with no config reports no-unsafe-optional-chaining for 5 of the 8 spellings. It reports nothing for (a?.b as T)(), (a?.b)!() and (a?.b satisfies T)().

What the tests hold

One entry file, built for the browser target, for the bun target, and for the bun target with reactCompilerOutputMode: "client". Each component renders for the receivers A, A and B, which share their methods, over one memo cache per component. A row prints what the three renders give, how often each render calls the method, and whether the function was compiled.

• Fixed rows: (api?.who)(), (api?.[k])(), (api?.a.who)(), (api?.a?.who)(), (api?.self().who)(), (box.api?.who)(), (api?.who)(n), ((api?.who))(), the four TypeScript wrappers, a statement in an argument, an argument that replaces the method, a longer chain callee in four kinds of loop, the call in a ternary and in an arrow.
• Rows without an object, or without a link of the chain: (api?.a.who)(note()) and (api?.a?.who)(note()) throw a TypeError after the argument runs, and before it when null.who is read. The plain build does the same.
• Rows that stay as they are: (0, api?.who)(), (api?.who ?? api.who)() and const f = api?.who; f() call with no this. api?.who(), (api?.who)?.() and (api.who)() keep it.
• Rows that pin a cost: the functions that are left as written (table below), and a props receiver.
• bun lint: a new oracle input, callee-in-parentheses.jsx, in the lowering group. oxlint 1.87.0 reports two react(refs) diagnostics for it. A build with the flag left on for lint adds a react(memo-dependencies) and a third react(refs), and the test of that group fails.

Functions with the form that are now left as written

Main compiles each of them, and gets this wrong in most. "As written" means that the output is the source: it is right, and it has no memo blocks.

Shape	Client mode	Ssr mode	Reason	api?.who(args) on main
useMemo(() => (api?.who)(), [api?.who]), and the useCallback twin	as written	compiled	Existing memoization could not be preserved	the same
a useMemo or useCallback call in the arguments	as written	compiled	Existing memoization could not be preserved	the same
a ref in the arguments, the call being a JSX child	as written	as written	Cannot access refs during render	the same
o.x++ in the arguments	as written	as written	Cannot declare variables in a value block	as written too (an invariant)
an IIFE argument that reassigns a local of the component	as written	as written	Cannot reassign variable after render completes	compiled. (0, api.who(<the same>)) is as written on main.

With [api] as the dependency list, the first row is compiled.

A call of a hook of one's own in the arguments, (api?.who)(useFoo()), stays compiled. The call then runs in every render, as api.who(useFoo()) does: a memo block cannot hold a hook call. Main kept the receiver-less call in a memo block.

Not changed here

Each of these loses or gains a receiver in another place. They are wrong on main and on this branch.

• A tag that is an optional chain in parentheses, (api?.who)`x`: it runs with no this in client mode. Its plain build is a SyntaxError until the printer keeps the parentheses (Keep the parentheses of an optional chain under new and as a template tag, and reject new a?.b() #41638), so it cannot be tested yet.
• A member tag: api[k]`x` runs with no this in client mode, and api.who`x` is keyed on the method. A separate fix is in progress.
• A method of the props object: props.who(<argument with a statement>) runs with no this (react-compiler: print (0, a.b)() for a value callee and keep a reference callee in place #48172 has it), and so does props[props.k]() (a todo test in react-compiler: print (0, a.b)() for a value callee and keep a reference callee in place #48172, a separate fix is in progress). (props?.who)() now keeps this. It is keyed on the method, as props.who() is (the ported pass OptimizePropsMethodCalls).
• a.b(<argument whose statement replaces a.b>) calls the new method. (a?.b)(<the same>) calls the old one on this branch. A separate fix is in progress.
• (0, a.b)() gains a this: react-compiler: print (0, a.b)() for a value callee and keep a reference callee in place #48172 in the compiler, Keep this undefined for call targets and template tags that a rewrite turned into a property access #40829 and js_parser: keep (0, x) where a fold leaves a property access as a callee or a template tag #46818 in the parser.
• bun lint lowers (a.b)() and a.b!() as method calls, where the two linters call a value: it reports a react(memo-dependencies) that oxlint 1.87.0 does not. Handed over for a separate fix.

Overlap with open PRs

• react-compiler: lower the import item of ns.member as a member of its namespace #47195 rewrites the same arm into lower_member_callee and keeps the optional_chain.is_none() test. The early return of this PR goes in front of it in either order.
• react-compiler: print (0, a.b)() for a value callee and keep a reference callee in place #48172 changes the arm for a value callee next to this one, and its todo test MemberCalleeThatGetsANameKeepsThis has the (own?.who)() row that this PR fixes.
• Cache version 52 is also taken by Keep the parentheses of an optional chain under new and as a template tag, and reject new a?.b() #41638, js_parser: keep a dropped ?. in the chain state until the visit pass #47688, react-compiler: do not compile a function that declares using, or var in a for-in/of head #48094, js_parser: reject a second class constructor and a label that repeats an enclosing label #40793 and react-compiler: print (0, a.b)() for a value callee and keep a reference callee in place #48172. The one that lands later takes the next number.

The longer chain callee

The object of the callee of (a?.b.c)() is a link of the chain. The chain lowering stores its place only on the path where the chain goes on. The call reads it after both paths, so the new helper makes the block for where the chain stops, and that block stores undefined into it too. Without that, a receiver made in a loop body failed an invariant ("Expected reactive scope to implicitly break to fallthrough") and the function was left as written. The memo key of such a call is the base of the chain (api), where api?.a.who() has api?.a.

Measurements (main 7ca0042 against this branch, before its rebase onto 2596ac5)

• Matrix of 1,024 components (16 contexts x 8 callee forms x 8 argument forms), first render against the plain build: 0 differ for the browser target and 0 for the bun target (main: 480 and 88). All 1,024 are memoized.
• The same matrix over renders A, A, B with one cache per component: 0 stale, 0 calls with no this (main: 672 and 488). The second render makes no call in 932 rows, on main and here.
• 18 loop forms with a receiver made in the loop: 0 left as written, results equal to the plain build for both targets.
• Lowered HIR of the 1,807 upstream fixtures (871 functions), dumped with BUN_REACT_COMPILER_DUMP_HIR=1: byte-identical. 0 _c(N) counts moved.
• Per (a?.b)() call: +2 blocks, +2 instructions and +2 terminals (5 blocks to 7). Per (a?.b.c)() call: one more store.
• Arguments: (api?.say)({ n }, [n], <i>{n}</i>) goes from c(7) to c(5), and (api?.say)({ a: n }, <i />, [n]) from c(6) to c(5). api?.say(...) has c(5) for both.
• A getter for who on the prototype, renders A, A, B: 3 reads and 3 calls in the plain build, 3 reads and 1 call (no this) on main, 2 reads and 2 calls here. The read is now inside the memo block.
• bun lint on 126 probe files in 4 configs (three oxlint configs, one ESLint config): 0 files differ between main and here.
• Release builds: .text 110,627,497 B to 110,630,569 B (+3,072 B, size -A). The stripped binary has the same size (140,478,752 B). The new helper is 2,965 B, lower_expression +61 B (nm -S).
• lower_expression (objdump): 4 compare-branches for an identifier callee and 4 or 5 for a member callee, before and after. The frame is 3,464 B before and after. bloaty, perf and valgrind are not installed here.

Self-review

24 concerns raised, 22 addressed. Not done: an upstream issue for the flag comment to cite (none exists upstream, and I did not file one), and a row in the compiled-against-plain AOT corpus (left for a follow-up).

What ran (debug build, after the rebase)

• test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts: 148 pass. The 3 new tests fail with a debug build of main's src/.
• react-compiler-fixtures.test.ts: 3,293 pass. react-compiler-fixtures-run.test.ts: 849 pass.
• test/aot/react-compiler.test.ts: 21 pass and 3 todo, run in groups (the whole file needs more disk than this machine has).
• test/cli/lint/react-compiler.test.ts: all pass when run in groups. With the whole file at once under the ASAN debug build, a few tests hit the 5 s timeout, a different set on each run.
• cargo clippy -p bun_react_compiler -p bun_lint_react_compiler: clean.

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no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts

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^{Updated 6:25 AM PT - Nov 8th, 2026}

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Status: ready for review. Each CI job that ran passed. The PR waits for a maintainer.

CI on a25b8d6e (build 138614):

• 184 of 188 jobs passed. No test is red.
• Seven tests failed one time and passed on the retry. None of them is a React Compiler test.
• test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts and test/cli/lint/react-compiler.test.ts passed on each lane that ran: Linux (ASAN included), Windows, and macOS aarch64.
• The four darwin any x64 - test-bun jobs have not started. The macOS x64 test queue holds more than 240 jobs for 9 agents. The jobs expire after two hours in the queue, before an agent takes them, and Buildkite queues them again each time.

How it reproduces. Make node_modules/react a stand-in whose jsxDEV returns props.children and whose compiler-runtime exports c = n => new Array(n).fill(Symbol.for("react.memo_cache_sentinel")). Then:

// a.jsx
const API = { who() { return this === undefined ? "no this" : "a this"; } };
function Card({ api }) {
  return <b>{(api?.who)()}</b>;
}
console.log(Card({ api: API }));

• bun build ./a.jsx --outfile=./o.js && bun ./o.js prints a this.
• With --react-compiler, main prints no this (the text is const t1 = api?.who; ... t1()). This branch prints a this (the text is if ($[0] !== api) t1 = (api?.who)()).

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Walkthrough

The React Compiler adds configurable lowering for calls through optional-chain members. When enabled, the lowering uses the member object as the call receiver. Bundler tests and lint fixtures cover the behavior.

Changes

Optional-chain calls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and dispatch optional-member calls src/react_compiler/hir/environment_config.rs, src/lint/react_compiler/compile.rs, src/react_compiler/lowering/build_hir/expr.rs	EnvironmentConfig adds a receiver-preservation flag that defaults to true. Lint configurations disable it. When enabled, call lowering dispatches optional-chain dot and index members to the new lowering path.
Lower calls with their receiver src/react_compiler/lowering/hir_builder.rs, src/react_compiler/lowering/build_hir/helpers.rs, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs	New helpers lower the optional member and call in a sequence block, using the member object as the method receiver. HirBuilder adds current_block_id. The cache format version changes to 52.
Validate optional-chain call behavior test/bundler/transpiler/react-compiler.test.ts, test/cli/lint/oracle/react-compiler/inputs.ts, test/cli/lint/oracle/react-compiler/expected.json	Bundler tests cover receiver behavior, argument side effects, memoization, and multiple build modes. Lint inputs and expected diagnostics cover parenthesized optional-chain callees and ref access.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Low · up to a25b8

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a25b8

Receiver preservation improves these calls, but memoized props-method calls can still return a previous receiver’s result. Merge with explicit awareness of this bounded correctness limitation.

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The title names the main change: the compiler lowers the parenthesized optional-member call (a?.b)() as a method call with a as the receiver. The changeset matches this. The lowering arm in expr.rs routes these calls to the new helper in helpers.rs, and the tests cover the receiver binding. The title is short, specific, and describes the primary fix from the developer's perspective.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked: the new early return in lower_expression only intercepts callees the existing is_member arm already excluded (optional_chain.is_none()), so plain a.b() lowering is untouched; the new config flag is set at both EnvironmentConfig construction sites (Default true, lint's config_of false), and the lint oracle expectations match the two oxlint react(refs) diagnostics the PR text names; EXPECTED_VERSION is bumped. The tagged-template twin (a?.b)`x` is deliberately excluded pending the printer fix the PR cites. I did not run the suite, so the USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 fail / bun bd test pass check is not confirmed here, and the (a?.().b)() shape (a call link as the callee's object) has no test row, so its path through the new alternate block was only read, not exercised.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a Bun-specific deviation from upstream React Compiler lowering for (a?.b)(args) in src/react_compiler/lowering/build_hir/{expr,helpers}.rs, gated by a new EnvironmentConfig flag that lint turns off, plus a cache version bump and a large parameterized bundler test. It touches no security-sensitive surface. A confirmed inline finding (loss of memo blocks when an argument declares a temporary) and the deliberate divergence from the ported reference implementation mean a human should weigh the trade-off.

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